Non-Fiction - Reunited: An Investigative Genealogist Unlocks Some of Life’s Greatest Family Mysteries by Slaton. It can at times be a bit disturbing, but this woman’s stories about finding adoptee’s parents are fascinating.
The Checklist Manifesto, the latest book I have read cover to cover. It is an amazingly good read, and full of thought-provoking information.
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I just finished * The Silver Linings Playbook*. I enjoyed it but I thought the book was going in a different direction and I liked my direction better. I saw a clip of the movie and it is clearly very different from the book.
Reading Possession now.
Just finished Flight Behavior, the new Kingsolver book. loved it…highly recommend.
Four of Dorothy Sayers books, are an interesting inclusion in NPRs best mysteries of 2012. Sayers died in 1957.
This is a kickstarter project that is already funded, but it sounds like a lot of fun.
(Ive become more interested in Shakespeare since my sisters foray into our genealogy revealed that the 1st Duke of Exeter was a great +++++++ grandfather, and * he was * half brother to Richard ll, who Shakespeare was also interested in)
Otherwise, I haven’t really read that much, but this sounds great!
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Ditto … though I felt grateful to the author for the “little too neat” ending.
Just finished * Heart of Darkness * which I vaguely recall reading in college. Oh my. What a wonderful, amazing book. Conrad. Yup . . . on my genius list.
End of Your Life book Club by Will Schwalbe
the Sweetness of Forgetting by Kristin Harmel
the Chaperone by Laura Moriarty
All fabulous, all different
Emerald, I’m a big Dorothy Sayres fan. Gaudy Night is about the best mystery ever written in my view. NPR is often pretty idiotic. They sound smart but often aren’t!
Just finished re-reading Adam Bede for first time in a about 20 years. Slow at first, then amazing. I only want to read oldies lately. Kind of disgusted with most of the fiction getting published of late. Like Gone Girl. I just thought it was ridiculous. I’m in the wrong century.
The Stonecutter by Camille Lackberg. I was a little leery reading a Swedish mystery as I hated the last one I read (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), but Lackberg had interesting characters a good story and was thankfully not as graphic about certain things.
The Round House–Louise Erdrich
The End of Your Life Book Club–Will Schwalbe
Heft: A Novel–Liz Moore
What Happened to Sophie Wilder–Christopher Beha
I’m about halfway through Felicia’s Journey by William Trevor–enjoying! Also, I’m listening to NW by Zadie Smith.
Sewhappy, I took one of my kid’s copy of Heart of Darkness, but I haven’t ever gotten around to reading. I remember disliking this book much when I was in college, but I was advised to reconsider it now in my mature reading years 
^Loved The Round House. Big fan of William Trevor too.
Gaudy Night is one of my comfort reads. I can’t even begin to guess how many times I’ve reread it! I’m about two thirds of the way through Brandon Sanderson’s latest epic fantasy The Way of Kings. He’s really amazing at world building though I often get impatient with his overly complicated systems of magic. This book is full of complicated characters with all sorts of interesting ethical issues to ponder.
But boy is it ever a book I wish I was reading on a Kindle! It’s so unwieldy in paperback!
It is acknowledged that these are reprints that launched HarperCollins new mystery line, Bourbon Street Books.
I took a break from the quite dense, Possession, to listen to Rachel Dratch’s book A Girl Walks into a Bar. A quick listen that the author narrates. I enjoyed it.
ha i was laughing about the Checklist Manifesto, started it, but my dog literally ate it and it cost 4k , very expensive book, too expensive to replace
Destiny of a Republic–Millard
this is about the life and death of Pres Garfield, intertwined with medicine and Bell’s discoveries. My bookclub members all enjoyed the book.
I finished “The Good House” by Anne Leary at 2:00 this morning. I couldn’t sleep until I finished it!
The Happiness Project
I am also reading End Of Your Life Book Club; it is a lovely book and especially meaningful as both my parents are failing. The first chapter is Crossing to Safety, one of my all time favorites. I’ve read it several times, but not in years. I happened to check the AudioBook out for a recent drive to Boston. The reader was really perfect.